The perimeter of a triangle is 100. Find the numerical value of the area of the triangle divided by the radius of the inscribed circle of the triangle.
A. 100 B. 200 C. 25 D. 50 E. NOTA

Oct 4th 2009, 03:07 PM

skeeter

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Originally Posted by spred

The perimeter of a triangle is 100. Find the numerical value of the area of the triangle divided by the radius of the inscribed circle of the triangle.
A. 100 B. 200 C. 25 D. 50 E. NOTA

let , , and be the lengths of the three sides of the triangle.

the perpendicular distance from each side to the incenter of the triangle equals the radius of the inscribed circle.

sketch a line segment from each vertex of the triangle to the incenter ... three triangles are formed inside the larger triangle, and each of the three areas of these smaller triangles sums to the area of the larger triangle.